>What about them? For Doug and Mike, was it really easier to do custom AMF and >timezone math vs just creating a custom DateWithoutTime class and transfer the >Date portion to/from the Date values in the components?
It wasn't an OR for us but an AND. In some cases where we couldn't use a completely custom flex framework, we messed around with just the serialization and imposed restrictions on the application developer to hopefully keep things sane. This sometimes worked. However, you will note that certain pickers, etc. create new Dates internally and hence create them in local timezones which one needs to be careful with when dealing with this whole serialization mess. When we could, we did our own custom class, implemented an interface, changed all of the Flex framework to use that interface instead of Date.. changed all of the spurious code inside of things like the Date pickers which randomly instantiate a new Date object and then implemented custom serialization to allow that custom Date object to flow back and forth to our end point properly. Internal to our custom object we still delegated much of the behavior down to an internal date so that we would still get the benefit of the date math. However, it also causes problems, as all of the date math is still going to occur in the timezone in which your client machine is located as you are not allowed to change the tz offset. So there are still borders where this goes wrong. Mike
